Chapter 16: Hold the SALT: Tension over Detente
1. "Ford's Costly Purge," Time, November 17, 1975.
2. Kissinger and James (Scotty) Reston, phone conversation, November 3, 1975, transcript.
3. Kissinger and Secretary William Simon, phone conversation, November 3, 1975, transcript.
4. Kissinger and Secretary William Simon, phone conversation, November 3, 1975, transcript.
5. "Total NODIS Cables Processed by the Cable Branch," December 1976.
6. John W. Finney, "Rumsfeld Fights Lynn on Arms Budget Cuts," New York Times, December 6, 1975.
7. John W. Finney, "Rumsfeld Calls for More Funds, Citing Increasing Soviet Power," New York Times, January 28, 1976.
8. Marshall to Rumsfeld, "Key Military Balances," December 6, 1975.
9. Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Perspectives: Fiscal Year 1977, July 1976.
10. Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Perspectives: Fiscal Year 1978, January 1977; Rumsfeld, interviewed by Dr. Alfred Goldberg and Dr. Roger Trask, OSD Historical Office, August 2, 1994, transcript, pp. 3-5.
11. Rumsfeld, interviewed by Dr. Alfred Goldberg and Dr. Roger Trask, OSD Historical Office, July 12, 1994, transcript, pp. 20-21.
12. Rumsfeld, interviewed by Dr. Alfred Goldberg and Dr. Roger Trask, OSD Historical Office, August 2, 1994, transcript, pp. 3-4; "Hughes/Currie Briefing Attendance Summary (Presentations to Members of the 94th Congress)," undated.
13. Defense Department cable, "Soviets Attack Sec Def Rumsfeld and Growing US Defense Budget," September 22, 1976.
14. Linwood B. Carter and Thomas Coipuram Jr., "Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: A Chronology, FY1970-FY2006," CRS Report for Congress, 98-756C, updated May 23, 2005.
15. Lou Cannon, Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power (New York: Public Affairs, 2003), pp. 416-417.
16. Gerald R. Ford, "Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session," Everett McKinley Dirksen Forum, Peoria, Illinois, March 5, 1976.
17. Jon Nordheimer, "Reagan Sharpens His Criticism of Ford, Citing Canal Talks and Two in Cabinet," New York Times, February 29, 1976.
18. Ronald Reagan, TV address to the nation, "To Restore America," March 31, 1976; Jon Nordheimer, "Reagan Appeals for Wide Support," New York Times, April 1, 1976.
19. Memorandum of conversation, Ford, Kissinger, Rumsfeld, and Scowcroft, Oval Office, March 29, 1976 (Gerald R. Ford Library).
20. Memorandum of conversation, Ford, Kissinger, Rumsfeld, and Scowcroft, Oval Office, March 29, 1976 (Gerald R. Ford Library).
21. Rumsfeld, interviewed by Dr. Alfred Goldberg and Dr. Roger Trask, OSD Historical Office, July 12, 1994, transcript, pp. 33-34.
22. Henry Kissinger, Years of Renewal (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), p. 176.
23. Rumsfeld to Ford, "'Cruise Missile' Definition," August 2, 1976.
24. Rumsfeld, "Continuation: Meeting with the President," February 15, 1976.
25. Brezhnev, letter to Ford, March 17, 1976.
